The other North Asian airport greatly impacted by slot restrictions is Shanghai Pudong. A prospective AirAsia X service – likely in the medium-term – would have late night timings and, like Beijing, be limited to one daily flight until other slot timings are available. Unlike the Tianjin-Beijing move, a Shanghai service could be supplementary to Hangzhou, which has its own market as a tourist hub.
Jetstar also serves Hangzhou but with its Airbus A320 fleet. Jetstar last year told CAPA it had secured Shanghai Pudong slots but it has not yet secured final approvals for a possible Shanghai service. Hangzhou is also a possible destination for Scoot, which wants to, as much as possible, open new destinations to the SIA network (neither SIA nor SilkAir serve Hangzhou). Any one of the three carriers launching to Shanghai (or Hangzhou for Scoot) would likely spur the others into the market.
Although further AirAsia X expansion could be into airports with limited windows for services, Mr Osman-Rani believes that as long as the carrier has slot flexibility at enough other airports it will not have to sacrifice its high utilisation rate in order to accomodate an airport's inflexibility. AirAsia X's utilisation rate of 19 hours for its A330s is one of the highest in the world and a significant driver to cost reduction.
Frequency increases could occur in Taiwan and South Korea, where AirAsia X benefits from the Malaysia-South Korea open skies agreement whereas capacity is capped between Singapore and South Korea. With SIA utilising almost all of the available capacity to South Korea, the country is effectively off the radar for Scoot and Jetstar's Singapore-based operations.
AirAsia Berhard (Malaysia) and Thai AirAsia serve with A320s Chongqing, Guilin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and from Oct-2012 Wuhan. AirAsia X serves Beijing, Chengdu and Hangzhou. Hangzhou and Wuhan are firmly within four hours from Tokyo, and Hangzhou's combination of a major tourist site in its own right as well as alternative to slot-limited Shanghai makes it an attractive destination, although AirAsia Japan would need to negotiate with part-owner ANA, which has a daily A320 service to Tokyo Narita and a daily Boeing 737-700 service to Osaka Kansai. While ANA has embraced LCCs – partially out of force – it is concerned to limit cannibalisation.
Excluding Beijing, where AirAsia Japan could not get daylight slots, all other AirAsia Group destinations in China – Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Guilin and Shenzhen – would exceed, by 30-90 minutes, the group's preferred four hour limit for A320s. That is not to rule out the cities entirely. A330s could be based out of Japan in the medium-term, or AirAsia Japan could launch international services from an inevitable new base. From a city further west in Japan than Tokyo, such as Osaka or Fukuoka, would quickly bring AirAsia's Chinese network into a four hour range for AirAsia Japan, and would allow future service to central and western cities that develop in the medium-term. 作者: yzfly 时间: 2012-9-1 21:25
顶。。。希望选择多多作者: 翻滚吧豆美酱 时间: 2012-9-1 21:28
不高兴了 作者: 深蓝_hz 时间: 2012-9-1 21:30
NKG好像没什么动作，稳坐钓鱼台作者: 小允 时间: 2012-9-1 22:01
什么时候开始是关键作者: orange1019 时间: 2012-9-1 22:13
对啊，时间是关键！作者: wsyp82 时间: 2012-9-1 23:03 作者: zzbluecat 时间: 2012-9-1 23:07
廉航多多，越多越好作者: 俗气锅 时间: 2012-9-1 23:19
在观察观察~~~~~~~作者: 连过7人 时间: 2012-9-1 23:22
成都有直飞东京的 估计成都又不在队列作者: 小老虎的后花园 时间: 2012-9-1 23:29
我觉得日本亚航应该会走差异路线～避开北京上海开二线城市直飞作者: enmo 时间: 2012-9-1 23:33
希望早点定下来。。。。作者: 强在英伦 时间: 2012-9-2 01:54 作者: bonbon77 时间: 2012-9-2 10:28
越多越好作者: Avril860826 时间: 2012-9-2 10:34
上海快开！作者: ginger_xy 时间: 2012-9-2 10:48
不错，廉航越多越好作者: maodou529 时间: 2012-9-2 12:32
同求上海快开作者: chong1414 时间: 2012-9-2 12:38
来广州吧作者: 六和塔边 时间: 2012-9-2 12:39
哈哈哈作者: CC在憧憬 时间: 2012-9-2 12:44
我要上海红眼！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！免住宿费！！！！！！！！作者: 快樂的小貧尼 时间: 2012-9-2 13:22
酷航开杭州？！！！太好了！！！！！！！！作者: Sydney_zz 时间: 2012-9-2 13:24
希望上海能多开，就比较方便，选择也多了。作者: 马乖乖 时间: 2012-9-2 13:39 越多越好作者: ding123dang456 时间: 2012-9-2 13:58
珠三角赶紧开去日本的啊 明年6月前开作者: n14809394 时间: 2012-9-2 14:01
多多益善作者: vokas008 时间: 2012-9-2 16:48
来武汉开哇！作者: 39935723 时间: 2012-9-3 12:39
看看。。。。。。。。。。。作者: 蛋糕kitty 时间: 2012-9-3 12:57
支持支持，魔都人民深切期盼作者: 亲亲阿九 时间: 2012-9-3 13:17
别光说没行动啊，表示完全欢迎扎根魔都作者: dqd001 时间: 2012-9-3 13:26
不开说的再多也不行啊作者: ilee 时间: 2012-9-6 13:08
魔都人民表示“多多益善”作者: 羽衣飞舞 时间: 2012-9-6 13:16
来吧来吧
